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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 20
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Zophar shows the state and portion of the wicked—He says: The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
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Then</span> answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
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Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for <i>this</i> I make haste.
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I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
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Knowest thou <i>not</i> this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
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That the triumphing of the wicked <i>is</i> short, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/20/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Joy.">joy</a> of the hypocrite <i>but</i> for a moment?
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Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
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<i>Yet</i> he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where <i>is</i> he?
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He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
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The eye also <i>which</i> saw him shall <i>see him</i> no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
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His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
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His bones are full <i>of the</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="job/20/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Carnal Mind."><i>sin</i></a> of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
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Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, <i>though</i> he hide it under his tongue;
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<i>Though</i> he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
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<i>Yet</i> his meat in his bowels is turned, <i>it is</i> the gall of asps within him.
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He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
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He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
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He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
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That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow <i>it</i> down: according to <i>his</i> substance <i>shall</i> the restitution <i>be,</i> and he shall not rejoice <i>therein.</i>
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Because he hath oppressed <i>and</i> hath forsaken the poor; <i>because </i>he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
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Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
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There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
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In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
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<i>When</i> he is about to fill his belly, <i>God</i> shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain <i>it</i> upon him while he is eating.
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He shall flee from the iron weapon, <i>and</i> the bow of steel shall strike him through.
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It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors <i>are</i> upon him.
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All darkness <i>shall be</i> hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
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The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
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The increase of his house shall depart, <i>and his goods</i> shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
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This <i>is</i> the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
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